If you expect such obedience, amongst your other innovations and regenerations, you ought to make a revolution in Nature, and provide a new constitution, for the human mind: otherwise your supreme government cannot harmonize with its executory system.
Burke argues that expecting a certain kind of obedience requires a fundamental change in human nature itself.
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This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.
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